Brush-holder



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H. H. SAWTELLE.

BRUSH HOLDER.

N0. 391,083. Patented Oct. 16, 1888.

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HERBERT H. SAWTELLE, OF LOYVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRUSH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,083, dated October 16, 188.

Application filed February 10, 1888. Serial No.263,583.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT H. SAWTELLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Brush- Holders, of which the following is a specifica tion.

My invention relates to brush-holders such as are adapted to be secured to dustpans and to hold dust-brushes connected to said dustpans, for the purpose of keeping the brushes and pans, together and enabling them to be suspended upon asingle hook or other support.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an isometric view of a dust-pan and a dustbrush held and secured to said dust-pan by my improved holder; Fig. 2, a side elevationof the same; Fig. 3, a section of a dust-pan on the line 00 as in Fig. 4, and a side elevation of the brush-holder, from which the holder proper, or clamp which grasps the brush, is broken away, showing how the brush-holderis secured to the dust-pan and the stops on the holder which engage the rim of the back of the dustpan; Fig. 4, a plan of adjacent parts of the back of the dust-pan and the handle of the same and of my improved holder secured to said back; Fig. 5, a plan of the bottom or under side of the handle and of the part of the back nearest said handle and of my improved holder attached to said back.

The dust-pan A and hand dust-brush B are of the usual construction, the handle a of the dust-pan being provided with a ring, a, by which the dust-pan is usually suspended when not in use. The back of the brush B is of the form shown at I), being rounded or convex from side to side and having comparatively thin side edges, 1), and the holder 0, hereinafter described, is attached to the back a of the dust-pan and grasps the brush by its back 2) and side edges, 1). The holder 0 is shown in the drawings to consist of two connected clamps, O (D -one, O, to grasp the back of the pan and the other, 0 to grasp the brush B. The holder is constructed of a piece of wire, the middle portion, a, of which, when in use, rests on the upper or front side of the back a of the dustpan. At each side of the middle portion, a, the wire is bent into a spiral, c, of

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one and a quarter coil, 0 c, and the back of the pan being inserted between and grasped by the coil 0 and the ,quartercoil 0 (these parts constituting the clamp G',) the holder is fastened to said back; but for greater security the wire, after being coiled as above described, is bent laterally on each side of the holder at c, to form stops to reach under the rim a or flange with which the dust-pan A is provided, the stops 0" effectually preventing the holder 0 from being accidentally disengaged from said dustpan.

At each side of the holder the wire is bent from the stops a downward at 0 for a short distance, then laterally inward at c, and again upward at 0 about parallel with the pan, for some distance above the back at 0 and then in a curve, 0", to conform to the back of the brush, for about half the width of said back, then inward in a half circle, 0, and backward at o nearly parallel with the curve 0, then in a circle, 0, then in an are, c, or curve to conform to the curvature of the back I), then hit erally inward at c, where the ends of the wire meet each other and are joined to each other by any convenient means, preferably by a tube or closely-wound spiral coil, D, of smaller wire,

' which, being flexible and the parts of the holder being also flexible, can readily be slipped first over one and then over the other of the end parts, a. The parts a nearest the ends of the wire which forms the holder are straight and in the same line. The curved portions 0 0 form two upper jaws of the brush-holding clamp 0", while the arc-shaped parts 0 and the straight end portions, 0 of the wire form the lowerjaw of said clamp 0 The free ends of the jaws of said last-named clamp are bent toward each other at 0 0 to reach over the side edges of the back of the brush and to retain the same in position.

The brush is inserted in the brush-holding clamp O by turning its back toward the handle of the dust-pan, and while the brush is held horizontally its lower side edge is placed upon the lower jaw back of the straight portion 0, and the upper edge of the brush is then turned backward and the inclination of the back just below said upper edge raises said upper jaws and allows said upper edge to pass under said jaws, which spring down over said upper edge and hold the brush in place. Said upper jaws being bent down at their free ends only slightly, as best shown in Fig. 2, turning the brush in the other direction raises said upper jaws and frees the brush from the clamp 0 The dust pan and brush, when connected as above described, may be suspended by the ring a on a single nail or hook, thus occupying less space than when separately hung on different nails or hooks, and will thus be kept together ready for use.

I claim as myinvention- 1. The brush-holder consisting of a clamp adapted to grasp the back of a dust-pan, and of aspring-clamp provided with jaws adapted to grasp the back of a brush and to retain said brush, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The brush-holder consisting of a wire bent into two connected clamps, one of which is :0 adapted to grasp the back of a dust-pan, and

the other of which is provided with springjaws to grasp the back of a dust-brush by its side edges, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination of a dust-pan,'h aving a back provided at its upper edge with a flange or rim, and the brush-holder consisting of a wire bent into two connected clamps, one of which is adapted to grasp said back, and is 

